you are more likely to die from a car accident than wi-fi radiation
It’s true. FA nearly died this morning and she is none too happy about it. It’s not a surprise really, seeing how many people bribe their way to obtain a driver’s license in this country. It has been over a decade since I sat for my driver’s license test, but I still remember the case of a woman in my batch. I guess she was in her mid-thirties or early-forties, couldn’t read or understand much Bahasa Malaysia and had some eyesight problems. Not the type that requires spectacles mind you, but the type that makes you unable to differentiate between red, green and yellow. But guess what? She passed all her tests! 
When I sold off my Proton Iswara a couple of years ago, it fetched a slightly lower price. After discounting the price reduction from a major car accident (somehow they always manage to find out, even after you sneakily fixed up the car to be all nice, functional and pretty), the used car dealer told me the price she was buying it for, and “it’s less a bit lah… because Johor plate number mah. People here don’t want one… “.
I don’t know if you are guilty of the following, but I am. Whenever someone is being an asshat on the road, I’d look at the car number plate. If it’s not from KL or Selangor, I’d angrily mutter, “Damn Penang/ Johor/ Melaka/ Terengganu etc drivers…”, never mind that I am far from receiving the Model Driver of the Year award. Hah, don’t lie, I know most of you do that too!
Penangnites have a reputation for being efficient or terrible drivers, depending on how you look at it, that is. Have you driven in Penang Island before? You must try it someday — it is truly an experience. Part of the problem is because of the poor road system and planning (same problem we have here in KL), and the other part is… I don’t know, insane drivers’ genes maybe? Let’s not even begin to talk about the motorcyclists.
Have you ever been in a car accident? I have, and I am very happy that I can be here to blog about it (as opposed to blogging as a ghost). But seriously, what are our chances of not getting ourselves into car accidents, huh? Huge torrential rains that totally fucks up your line of sight. Vehicle owners who don’t take care of their vehicles, resulting in damaged brake/ indicator lights etc. Cars and vans more than 20 years old still zipping around town, with owners almost harbouring a death wish (because it wouldn’t matter if the vehicle is totaled). Motorists and passengers not wearing seat belts, motorcyclists and passengers not wearing helmets. Motorcyclists who do not use the motorbike lanes and insist on taking up the entire lane by driving at 30kph. Motorists who drive at 40kph when they should be driving at 90kph. Motorists who drive at 140kph when they should be driving at 90kph. Not to mention our brilliant road and town planning that sees you ending up in bottleneck traffic jams around the city.
How badly did you curse when you found yourself inching along Federal Highway, only to find out 8km later that one single stalled car was the cause of your time loss and aggravation?
Ah well. Like I said, I am probably no less innocent than you on the road. Looking at statistics, I might end up flattened on a Malaysia road one day. But I still have to get around, so like it or not, I’ll have to take my chances.
I’ll tell you this much though — I feel safer staying at home being on-line via Wi-Fi than driving on Malaysian roads. The same reason why I feel safe using a mobile phone (of course I don’t use just any ciplak brand 
), and when I nuke leftovers using the microwave.
Because, come on… seriously? You and I are more likely to die from a car accident than Wi-Fi radiation.
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Tags: cars, wi-fi
‘Have you ever been in a car accident?’
Yes … lets see … first one was when I was 16. Friend skidded going around a corner (he wasn’t hooning, but was on a limestone road) and took the back wheels off his car (axle and all) as we went sideways up an embankment.
Hit a tree .. hit an embankment … hit a kangaroo … and that was just today.
Now, who wants a lift?
‘(as opposed to blogging as a ghost)’
Who would you ghost write for????
‘Looking at statistics, I might end up flattened on a Malaysia road one day.’
They have statistics for flattened bloggers on roads? Wow!
Death by Wi-Fi sounds a lot better than Death by Stupid Driver. Infinitely less messy as well, I reckon.
Knocked down by a bike when I was still a kid. Got tayar marks but survived.
Same like SF, I was hit by a bike when I was 12 and broke my collarbone. According to the witnesses, I made a Blanka spin before hitting the ground. LoL…
Btw, when you are in Penang, beware of the bikers because all their grandfathers own every single road here.
ShadowFox - does that count as a car accident? I was run over once by a car when I was riding my bike to work, but I don’t count it as being in a car accident as much as I count it as being run over by an idiot who can’t stop at stop signs.
(Yes, I lived. THanks for noticing)
Yaloh, Penang drivers and SG drivers… SG drivers love to get into bumper-to-bumper crashes (see so many in my short visits down there). I think it’s because they expect traffic to go on smoothly and so cannot stop in time when the car in front suddenly brakes.
omg dutch lady iced latte
If you sell your car to 2nd hand car dealer, a simple question such as “what is the % of your NCD” and the ownership period, it will add up the info. If they can’t (e.g. accident happens 6 years ago), they can always easily dig out the information from the insurance company.
Most accident are not accident, but indeed a collision create by idiots. Like an crash I face. In a two lane way, a youngster think himself as Takumi Fujiwara, try to take a big-U turn by making a big swing from the left most lane right to the opposite of the road in a no-U-turn junction. And the bugger is in my collision course. Luckily I hit the driver side rear part and didn’t kill him. From there’s one lesson I learn, you must pretend all drivers on the road are insane, regardless the place they come from.
For the wifi part, well, if people find out they can torrent wholes chunks of movie from the net , the network will falling apart pretty soon. Because we are Malaysian, when there is freebies, we will take 99.99%.
Haha… I like the way you put it. So true, of all the things with higher probability of causing death or whatsoever humans are scared of, why lar find fault in the ‘innocent’ Wi-Fi?
wtf is paul so random?
Paul - Dutch oven curdles milk!!!
wi fi radiation… i think it’s gonna cause all us guys impotent.
they can figure out that your car has been thru an accident cos the mechanic did a kereta sambung job…
dabs: what happened to the kangaroo?
eyeris: well who knows? maybe your insides would be well and thoroughly fucked and squishy
SF: hmm touch wood but i’ve never been the knockee
bryan: oh i experienced it in penang already
suertes: yeah well, the polizia also gets more $$ from the sporeans
paul: z0mg history
moo_t: well after writing this post, i went home and on the way some idiot nearly made me crash into him. dude made all the effort to keep to the left lane, so i overtook him on the right lane and suddenly the mofo decided that he wanted to turn right. also aunties who turn out from a road go straight towards the middle lane wtf
ychu: true. you can eat a white rabbit sweet today and die tomorrow, wahey!
ky: he remembers
his accident?
zewt: hah i forgot that little unfortunate effect of wi fi
Johor drivers are the craziest, most illogical bunch of mofos out there. Mofos will overtake you from the left side, regardless if there’s any existing driving lanes(grass, mud road, berm, drain doesn’t matter to them) or just have the itch to hit 120km/h on a suburb road.
I agree with your view on the motorists. JPJ should just apply them fucktards some traveling time constrains.
*It sued me in a Kangaroo Court!
z: i know! I am from johor! Haheaheae
dabs: no shit